# Condition problem (if)

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/condition-problem-if/163131>\
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**Created:** [September 20, 2005, 1:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/condition-problem-if/163131 "2005-09-20T01:48:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![ekitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ekitel](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ekitel)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 1:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/condition-problem-if/163131/1 "2005-09-20T01:48:55Z")

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I have this conditional statement

if (controller.pauseBTN.\_visible == false) {  
gotoAndPlay(2);  
} else {  
stop();  
}

it’s seem like it’s always false because it always just stops, never goes and plays frame 2

this is a very simple audio loop controller, ‘controller’ is an instance of movie clip with 2 buttons on top of each other, when pauseBTN is released it sets pauseBTN.\_visible = false and then goes and plays frame 2 in the \_parent . that part works perfectly, but then sometimes it gets kicked back to frame 1 where the music loop is, but the pauseBTN is still invisible so my condition should kick back up to frame 2 again (which has: stopAllSounds(); stop(); )

any idea why this is, or maybe a link to some info on how to debug ‘if’ staments

just for curiosity, my movie clip that contains the music an controller keeps getting kick back to frame 1 whenever the user clicks a link that takes them backwards on the main timeline, when they click a link that goes forward it stays on 2, but a backward movement on the timeline causes this movie clip there to rewind to it’s beginning, I have no idea why it does that, if I could make it stop that would solve the problem just as well

thanks in advance for any advice! 🙂